Divining without Seeds : : The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa / / Iruka N. Okeke.
Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, yet health practitioners routinely fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. As a result, patients often do not receive the right medicine in time to cure them promptly even when such medicine is available,...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Power of Sight
- 2. Fever: Is It Malaria?
- 3. Fever: Beyond Malaria
- 4. Drug Resistance
- 5. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- 6. Detecting Covert Infection ahead of the Final Diagnosis
- 7. Diagnostic Certainty and Disease Control
- 8. Origins and Outlook of Diagnostic Insufficiency in Africa
- Conclusion: The Feasibility of Laboratory Diagnosis in African Settings
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index